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Oyakoshinju : deathbond / Sachi Oyama.
- Format:
- Sound recording
- Author/Creator:
- Oyama, Sachi, author.
- Series:
- L.A. Theatre Works Collection, Volume 2
- Standardized Title:
- Death bond. Spoken word
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Japanese--United States--Drama.
- Japanese.
- Women--Japan--Drama.
- Women.
- Married people--Drama.
- Married people.
- Adultery--Drama.
- Adultery.
- Genre:
- Live sound recordings.
- Radio plays.
- Drama.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (85 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- [Venice, California] : L.A. Theatre Works, 1994.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- digital
- optical
- stereo
- audio file
- Summary:
- A young divorcee named Keiko moves from Hiroshima to America to start a new life with her ambitious husband. But when he takes a mistress and leaves her, Keiko takes drastic and irreversible actions to preserve her dignity and that of her children. A touching and poetically written study of the stultifying effect of traditional values on a Japanese woman. This searing drama reveals the clashing social values that drive a young Japanese mother living in Los Angeles to an act of desperation. An L.A. Theatre Works full cast recording.
- Participant:
- Shuko Akune (Keiko Owari), Jusak Bernhard (Petition Signer), Takayo Fischer (Keiko's Mother), Robert Ito (Yoshito Hojo), Peter A. Jacobs (Judicial Voice/Surfer), Robin Goodrin Nordli (American Neighbor), Yuki Okumoto (Ryuichi Owari), Randy Tanizawa (Child's Voice), Shari Tanizawa (Child's Voice).
- Notes:
- Recorded before a live audience at the Guest Quarters Suite Hotel, Santa Monica, in July of 1991.
- Title from cover image (viewed March 21, 2022).
- Streaming audio files.
- OCLC:
- 1309919628
- Publisher Number:
- ASP5202620/rdr2
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